William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Twin Cities Area
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City